Coming to Your City

As I look back on today's message, I think the song "Coming To Your City" could have been an appropriate theme song for today. Today was an awesome day with one of our highest attendances at church. The kids area filled with kids everywhere. Our volunteers did an awesome job. The band did a great job as well.

Today I shared the vision of our church and where we are heading from here. I let our church in on the big news that is going to be happening in the coming months.

On April 6th we are going to be launching our second campus. This is awesome because it will happen on the 6 month anniversary of the launch of our church. Our second location that we are launching will be located in Anderson along the North Main/Clemson Boulevard corridor. We have several families making the trek from Anderson and we have between 10-15 families that will make up the core group for this new launch. We already have our campus pastor in place. Dan Cunningham has agreed to be the campus pastor for our Anderson location. Our goal all aong has been to be One church with multiple campuses. This will not be a video venue. I know that many churches are doing video but that is not part of our vision.

Whoever is speaking each Sunday will speak at both locations. We will have staggered service times and the speaker will travel to both. The music will be live and eventually each campus will have their own band.

We also are in preliminary talks with a future location in Greenville. We have already laid out some preliminary ground work for the Greenville campus but have not set a target date for the launch. 10.05.08 would be awesome with me. That would be the first anniversary of our church start but that is up to God as he opens doors.

Once we launch the Greenville Location we will be adding an additional teaching pastor and we will rotate between the different locations. Too many churches revolve around one personality and our goal is that our church would not revolve around "a personality" but instead it would revolve around Christ.

Our Wren location will be moving to our building in Powdersville pretty soon. We have secured some additional square footage and will begin meeting there.

The coolest part of all of this is that we can grow to be a large church while maintaining the atmosphere of a small church. We will have the resources of a large church while enjoying the community of a small church. We have taken a different approach. Rather than saying to people, you come visit with us, we are saying we are coming to you in your community because we truly want to have an impact on that community.

Other cool news to report, when we launched we borrowed thousands of dollars to launch and as of two and a half months into the start, we are completely debt free. God has done some awesome things and the best is yet to come. See you soon at Stone Bridge Church.